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ild··on American Electronics Hobbyist Census [pdf]
Arduino IMHO is bad and harmful: it "gentrifies" the hobby, floods it with people who have no desire to learn the basics.
ild··on American Electronics Hobbyist Census [pdf]
Building "robots" is a lame thing; teach her the real things: batteries, leds etc.
ild··on Books That Shaped America
It sad that her ideas are too popular among general public. And as a consequence US and even Europe go towards something unpalatable these days.
ild··on Books That Shaped America
Bittorent County Library System.
ild··on Books That Shaped America
Not all Americans grew up in US; very useful info for the immigrants.
ild··on Indian immigrants are tech's new titans
I know only one tech titan, and he is South African; the other one was half-Lebanese, but he is dead now.
ild··on Russia bans Reddit
No, violence in Russian Army is institutionalized, it is called "dedovshina".
ild··on Russia bans Reddit
Russian Army is like American Prison. Violence, a lot of violence.
ild··on “It’s done, there is no way back. We tried, we failed”
Yet STALKER was not vaporware after all.
ild··on The pressure to achieve academically is a crime against learning
If it mattered that much, I would not have been able to find jobs in US (and I did, in big name ones). My university is a shitty, unknown (but state run and legitimate) school in ex-USSR.
ild··on Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
DNA needs to be _unfolded_ during transcription. Anyway, the information stored in DNA in a very much non-quantum nature.

> Also, the way how RNA polymerase work (i.e., transcription) is of quite a quantum nature too.

Proof?

ild··on Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
I am not talking about RNA. I am talking strictly about. The way DNA stores information has nothing to do with the way it is folded. Proteins and some types of RNA require proper folding to function, DNA does not.
ild··on Study of Ad-Blocking Software Suggests Wide Use
...and here comes dot-com bubble 2.0
ild··on Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
Folding has nothing to do with DNA.
ild··on Deleting your browser history could land you in prison
The trouble is, no amount of "computer forensics" can explain the reason why records disappeared. May be it was a virus, a bug in browser or someone else had access to the computer.
ild··on Quantum weirdness is everywhere in life
That claim about DNA, mutations and quantum effects - well it makes the paper less credible. DNA and its replication and mutations are largely non-quantum and it is also not true at all that in DNA every matters; minor alterations of the do not produce invalid code.
ild··on Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones
I am talking about consumer debt.
ild··on Fry's Electronics owns and operates a rare 747SP
Fry's have good selection candies though.
ild··on Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones
Americans have very different attitudes to loans, compared to Europeans: you do not borrow - you are missing out what life offers to you.
ild··on 'Mr. Robot' creator on the evils of Facebook and hackers in Hollywood
There is 3 test networks allocated by IANA, that never can be legal public addresses.
ild··on 'Mr. Robot' creator on the evils of Facebook and hackers in Hollywood
Oh well, 198.51.100/24 would work just fine, without compromising the realism.
ild··on Former Apple rival IBM could become the biggest buyer of MacBooks
The last decent non-Apple laptops were the ones with 16:10 screen; since switching to 16:9 the whole industry refocused itself on making consumer grade products.
ild··on The White House's Alpha Geeks
"There is only one party in US - business party" - Noam Chomsky (inventor of lex and yacc)
ild··on I have no idea what I'm doing
Use VirtualBox as a virtual machine. Will make your live much easier.
ild··on Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win
Another well-known Troll fighter is Vizio.
ild··on Handy, a hot startup for home cleaning, has a big mess of its own
Housekeeping will never become Uber, because: a) Uber used by wide range of people of various income levels. b) Not everyone likes housekeeping done for them by someone else.
ild··on The Evidence Supports Artificial Sweeteners Over Sugar
> trans fat

Saturated fats are not good either.

ild··on The Push Against Performance Reviews
Not sure, I just heard it from "friends friends"; the region is Midwest.
ild··on How Academia Resembles a Drug Gang (2013)
In the USSR of 60s - 70s senior scientists/profs were upper middle class, and had high social status.
ild··on The Push Against Performance Reviews
> At only a minority of restaurants do tips get shared with the cooks.

I think they often do get shared with cooks, but not to the extent to anyhow influence the quality.

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